"Whatever debate may linger about the government’s harsh early
tactics — until 1993, everyone who tested positive for H.I.V. was forced
into quarantine — there is no question that they succeeded... Other
elements have contributed to Cuba’s success: It has free universal basic
health care; it has stunningly high rates of H.I.V. testing; it
saturates its population with free condoms, concentrating on high-risk
groups like prostitutes; it gives its teenagers graphic safe-sex
education; it rigorously traces the sexual contacts of each person who
tests positive."

These "quarantines" were actually nefarious HIV/AIDS prisons. Or as the Castro-friendly World Health Organization ("WHO") calls them "pretty prisons."

Like nearly everything else The New York Times has written about Cuba since 1959, that article turned out to be unmerited -- and unethical -- propaganda.

Last week, we learned that a new, more aggressive strain of the HIV virus has been discovered in Cuba.

"In Cuba, a variant of HIV that is much more aggressive than other
known forms of the virus has been documented. Patients infected with
this new variant progress to AIDS so rapidly that they may not even know
they are infected, with AIDS symptoms occurring within 3 years of
infection."

And how did this new strain come about?

"If a person contracts multiple strains of HIV - typically by
engaging in unprotected sex with multiple infected partners - then these
strains can recombine into a new variant of HIV within the host. The
new Cuban variant of HIV is one such recombinant version of the virus."

Clearly those "harsh early tactics" were not only cruel and inhumane -- but they were also unsuccessful [and are now responsible for developing a new, much more aggressive, strain of AIDS].